Perhaps pedestrian traffic would make up for it, but nothing said in the article actually shows that. I agree with you that the article doesn’t contain enough

Perhaps pedestrian traffic would make up for it, but nothing said in the article actually shows that. I agree with you that the article doesn’t contain enough information to make a firm conclusion. In fact, that was my point. Yes, I’m basing my conclusion on the fact that more than twice the number of businesses said it went down as up. Yes, that’s qualitative at some level, but if it supports any conclusion whatsoever, it supports the conclusion of business being down, not “no impact.” The article is trying to whitewash the impact. It reports a bunch of numbers but those numbers don’t say much at all, and if they say anything, it’s actually opposite of what the reporter claims they say. To be clear, I don’t live in NYC and I don’t have an opinion on the policy. I’m just noticing the poor reporting.